Ehsan Ali

• Al-Muthanna University

Soil health is confronted with tremendous difficulties at a global level nowadays because of human-induced anthropogenic activities. These issues are significantly increased due to an enormous global population increase. Food scientists thought there would be a 70% increase in food production by 2050 due to an estimated 10 billion human population....

Agroforestry is a land-use management system that was originally designed to get maximum agricultural production. Still, it has grown into a diverse problem-solving technology with applications in soil restoration, biodiversity conservation, and climate change mitigation. Given the worldwide problems related to soil, biodiversity, and climate chang...

Background: The present study was conducted in the town of Miani, district Sargodha, Punjab to make an inventory of economically important plants and further assess their conservational status by documenting the indigenous knowledge of local communities, hakims, and plant experts. The locals have close contact with the neighboring plant resources....

Deforestation is the accelerating factor of climate change in developing countries. The German Watch Report 2020 had rated Pakistan number seventh most affected country due to adverse impacts of climate change. The problem of deforestation poses an existential danger to the forest-depleted country. It is of utmost importance to predict the main dri...

Greenhouse gases are major triggers of climate change as trapping heat makes the planet warmer than the usual. A surge in greenhouse gas emissions has been most eminent in the current decade as compared to previous years. As in 2018 alone, global GHG emission was quantified to be at 55.6GtCo2 eq. These emissions are variable and directly associated...

Skin conditions are among the most common health problems that affect people. Modern, allopathic, and natural medicine can all help to promote healthy skin. Human skin problems can be successfully treated using medicinal herbs because they contain a wide variety of bioactive molecules. The goal of this research is to look into the dermatological pr...

The desert ecosystem of Cholistan is rich in xerophytic flora of medicinal importance. Aerva javanica is most common shrub and equally neglected as potential medicinal plant in the study area. Chemical composition as well as medicinal folklores of Aerva javanica in the Cholistan desert of Pakistan was explored in this study.

Rigid cell wall of microalgae is a serious obstacle in commercialization of microalgae biofuels. Conventional cell wall rupturing techniques require organic solvents and are not so efficient. In this research work, TiO 2 photocatalyst was used to rupture the cell walls of two different indigenously isolated microalgae strains; Scenedesmus and Chlor...

To meet the issues of energy and environment, algae cultivation for biofuel and CO 2 sequestration is getting popular at the global level. Specific algal strains have been identified for production of biofuel, biomolecules and biomass. To start algae cultivation at lab or industrial scale, it is requirement to have isolated and identified algal cul...

Objective A major factor in practical application of photobioreactors (PBR) is the adhesion of algal cells onto their inner walls. Optimized algal growth requires an adequate sunlight for the photosynthesis and cell growth. Limitation in light exposure adversely affects the algal biomass yield. The removal of the biofilm from PBR is a challenging...

Currently, the scientific community is keenly working on environmental-friendly processes for the production of clean energy and sustainable development. The study was conducted to cultivate microalgae in raw institutional wastewater for water treatment, enriched production of biomass and CO2 sequestration. The strains which were used in this study...

The problem regarding environment has been considered as contemporary issue and to cater this various technologies have been revolutionized in vehicle transport field. Efforts have been made to make vehicle engine efficient and introducing hybridized vehicles with the aim of reducing emissions and less fuel dependency. In essence of this, trends of...

The problem regarding environment has been considered as contemporary issue, and to cater this, various technologies have been revolutionized in vehicle transport field. Efforts have been made to make vehicle engine efficient and introducing hybridized vehicles with the aim of reducing emissions and less fuel dependency. In essence of this, trends...

Bio-refineries as a concept are focused on the production of chemical energy carriers and, in certain cases, electrical power as well. The production of electrical power, however, is done via thermochemical processing which an inherently inefficient process. Here an electrochemical means of electrical power production is proposed alongside the prod...

This paper deals with the suitability of Surface and Ground water quality of Western Yamuna Canal in Haryana, India for irrigation and other use. The major water use of this canal is for irrigation purpose (94%), domestic water use (4%) and industrial and other uses (2%).The rapid increase inurbanization and industrialization is leading towards det...

Due to rising need of fuel to power various sectors of the society, the world is turning its focus to alternatives fuels. These alternative fuels are not only cheap as compared to the present fossil fuels but also are environment friendly. These fuels include bio-ethanol and bio-diesel, which are the ultimate products from biomass. Biomass is an ab...

Due to rising need of fuel to power various sectors of the society, the world is turning its focus to alternatives fuels. These alternative fuels are not only cheap as compared to the present fossil fuels but also are environment friendly. These fuels include bio-ethanol and bio-diesel, which are the ultimate products from biomass. Biomass is an ab...

The study was designed to compare the bioethanol production from Zymomonas mobilis and Saccharomyces cerevisiae using molasses as production medium. The focus was on the retention time at lab scale. Bioethanol and petroleum blend can be used in existing gasoline engines. Present study showed a more cost-effective procedure for production of ethanol...

February 27, 2015 New test proposed to determine origin of biodiesel feedstock BY EHSAN ALI This article proposes the development of a technique to easily determine the source of oil or biodiesel based on carbon isotope ratio in different regions of the world. It would be like a litmus test to check the source of oil for biodiesel http://www.biodie...

The strain Zymomonas mobilis was used to produce Bioethanol from sugar cane molasses. The study was conducted to investigate the optimized conditions for production of Bioethanol through batch fermentation. The fermentation unit was designed to determine the effect of fermentation temperature, pH, sugar concentration and supply of nutrients. The Zy...

The resolution for taking up this investigation owing to the fact that nowadays natural aggregate (coarse and fine) confirming to Indian Standards is becoming scarcer and costlier due to its non-availability in time because of law of land, illegal dredging by sand mafia and accessibility to the river source during rainy season. Keeping this in view...

Recent research has shown that tesla turbine can be one of the future efficient sources of renewable energy. Modern techniques used for designing of tesla turbine have given optimum results regarding efficiency and applications. In this paper we have suggested fully coordinated applications of tesla turbine in different fields particularly in power...

Boundary layer turbine, although invented long before but has failed to commercialize and beat the bladed turbines due to certain lacks. In this paper we have proposed and suggested some techniques to improve the design of the boundary layer turbine such that to take the optimum advantage of its efficiency, compensating all of its draw backs. A tes...

This study sought to identify inhibitory factors of lipase catalyzed-fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) production from waste activated bleaching earth (wABE). During the vegetable oil refinery process, activated bleaching earth (ABE) is used for removing the impure compounds, but adsorbs vegetable oil up to 35-40% as on a weight basis, and then the w...

The aim of this study was to improve the production of an extracellular alkaline lipase from Alcaligenes sp. (ATCC 31371) by optimization of the culture medium, for economic production of biodiesel from waste vegetable oil. A number of carbon sources including different types of starch, sugar, sugar alcohol, organic acids, and surfactants were inve...

A comprehensive assessment of four power plants operating on fossil fuel (Diesel Power Plant) was conducted near the industrial area of Raiwind, Distt. Kasur, Pakistan. The installed capacity of these power plants is 117 MW, 112 MW, 90 MW, and 60MW respectively. The emissions of all the engines of the individual plants were monitored for six months...

S-layer homology (SLH) module polypeptides were derived from Clostridium josui xylanase Xyn10A, Clostridium stercorarium xylanase Xyn10B, and Clostridium thermocellum scafoldin dockerin binding protein SdbA as rXyn10A-SLH, rXyn10B-SLH, and rSdbA-SLH, respectively. Their binding specificities were investigated using various cell wall preparations. r...

Clostridium josui xylanase Xyn10A is a modular enzyme comprising two family-22 carbohydrate-binding modules (CBMs), a family-10 catalytic module (CM), a family-9 CBM, and two S-layer homologous modules, consecutively from the N-terminus. To study the functions of the family-22 CBMs, truncated derivatives of Xyn10A were constructed: a recombinant CM...

Clostridium stercorarium Xyn10B having hydrolytic activities on xylan and beta-1,3-1,4-glucan is a modular enzyme composed of two family-22 carbohydrate-binding modules (CBMs), a family-10 catalytic module of the glycoside hydrolases, a family-9 CBM, and two S-layer homologous modules, consecutively from the N-terminus. We investigated the function...

Clostridium thermocellum xylanase Xyn10C (formerly XynC) is a modular enzyme, comprising a family-22 carbohydrate-binding module (CBM), a family-10 catalytic module of the glycoside hydrolases, and a dockerin module responsible for cellulosome assembly consecutively from the N-terminus. To study the functions of the CBM, truncated derivatives of Xy...

A simple and accurate method for Kjeldahl determination of nitrogen without distillation has been developed which does not involve temperature or pH control. The interference due to copper sulfate, mercuric sulfate, and selenium employed as catalysts has been eliminated. The stability of sodium hypobromite has also been improved.